Hi schumann. Some of the Amendments to our Constitution ought to be repealed. I’m especially eager to help that happen for the 16th (because that would abolish the onerous federal income tax), and the 17th (because popular election of Senators has gravely diminished the important role of the States in checking federal overreach). But many of the amendments are fine. You disparage libertarian dogma. Do you disparage the 9th and 10th Amendments as childish too?
“...You disparage libertarian dogma. Do you disparage the 9th and 10th Amendments as childish too?” [Steve Schulin, post 36]
Libertarianism is fine in theory: if humans were 100 percent rational, unegotistic, uncovetous, never inclined to immaturity uninclined to angry outbursts, and never interacted with each other.
The drawback is that no human can be those ways 100 percent of the time, and hardly any of us can be any of those ways so much as half the time. Plus, we insist on crowding together, forcing our will on others, and on producing children. One person’s liberty bumps up against that of another. So libertarianism ends up being unworkable in the real world.
Stop cloaking yourself in amendments to the US Constitution. The Founders would have rejected libertarian dogma out of hand: they’d have heard your words but would have furrowed their brows in uncomprehending bafflement. Or they’d have clapped you in irons, as was done with mentally ill persons at the time; or they may have accused you of witchcraft and burned you at the stake.